Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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![Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.](/img/q/65/41565A-nothing-is-so-at-odds-with-prayer-as-vanity-dietrich-bonhoeffer.png)
Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
![Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.](/img/q/24/29124A-death-is-the-supreme-festival-on-road-freedom-dietrich-bonhoeffer.png)
Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
![Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.](/img/q/40/25140A-action-springs-not-from-thought-but-from-readiness-responsibility-dietrich-bonhoeffer.png)
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
![Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.](/img/q/26/39426A-strict-exercise-of-self-control-is-essential-feature-christians-life-dietrich-bonhoeffer.png)
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.
![The church...is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.](/img/q/82/25182A-the-churchis-not-just-to-bandage-victims-under-wheel-but-dietrich-bonhoeffer.png)
The church...is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.
![Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.](/img/q/08/31808A-man-has-learned-to-cope-with-all-questions-importance-without-dietrich-bonhoeffer.png)
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
![By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.](/img/q/79/34079A-by-judging-others-we-blind-ourselves-our-own-evil-grace-dietrich-bonhoeffer.png)
By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
![In normal life one is often not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.](/img/q/96/31696A-in-normal-life-one-is-often-not-at-all-aware-dietrich-bonhoeffer.png)
In normal life one is often not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life.
![Possessions delude the human heart into believing that they provide security and a worry-free existence, but in truth they are the very cause of worry. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.](/img/q/38/37838A-possessions-delude-the-human-heart-into-believing-that-they-provide-dietrich-bonhoeffer.png)
Possessions delude the human heart into believing that they provide security and a worry-free existence, but in truth they are the very cause of worry.
![Music...will help to dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibility, and in times of care and sorrow will keep a ground-bass of joy alive in you. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.](/img/q/33/36233A-musicwill-help-to-dissolve-your-perplexities-purify-your-character-sensibility-dietrich-bonhoeffer.png)
Music...will help to dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibility, and in times of care and sorrow will keep a ground-bass of joy alive in you.
![The essence of optimism is not its view of the present, but the fact that it is the inspiration of life and hope when others give in; it enables a man to hold his head high when everything seems to be going wrong; it gives him strength to sustain reverses and yet to claim the future for himself instead of abandoning it to his opponent. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.](/img/q/06/36806A-the-essence-of-optimism-is-not-its-view-present-but-dietrich-bonhoeffer.png)
The essence of optimism is not its view of the present, but the fact that it is the inspiration of life and hope when others give in; it enables a man to hold his head high when everything seems to be going wrong; it gives him strength to sustain reverses and yet to claim the future for himself instead of abandoning it to his opponent.